Project Learning Tree

PLT Workshop

Thursday, December 4, 2008, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
optional – Friday, December 5, 2008, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Project Learning Tree is an award-winning, interdisciplinary environmental education program for educators working with students in Pre-K through Grade 12. PLT helps students gain awareness and knowledge of the natural and built environment, their place within it, as well as their responsibility for it. PLT provides ready-made lessons and activities that can be incorporated into busy classrooms, nature centers, museums and Scout troops. The activities require minimal preparation and little, if any, equipment. The PLT curriculum is designed to meet the common components of national education reform by using the constructivist approach to learning, whole language teaching, cooperative learning, problem solving and authentic assessments.

Thursday will focus on the new 2006 Pre-K-8 Guide, containing 96 hands-on interdisciplinary activities. The Pre-K-8 Guide covers such topics as water and air quality, ecology, urban environments, and recycling.

Friday will focus on the secondary module Exploring Environmental Issues: Places We Live. The secondary modules are intended for grades 9-12 but can be adapted for other audiences such as entry-level college course and adult community groups. Exploring Environmental Issues: Places We Live provides educators with a useful tool for place-based education to help create a bond between young citizens and their communities. Students will explore current and future community environmental issues, enabling them to make informed decisions about those issues.

Participants will meet at the Blue Jay Center for Environmental Education. Please bring a bag lunch and wear field clothing each day.

Upon attendance of the optional second day or completion of a homework assignment, this workshop meets the objectives for 10-hour workshop in NCEE Criteria I. CEU credit may also be available.

Adult Workshop. FREE, but preregistration required.
To register, call 919-870-4330 or e-mail bluejaypoint@co.wake.nc.us.